Hargeisa authorities destroy 650 bottles of Alcohol Wines in public

Hargeisa (Somaliland.com) – Hargeisa Regional Court, Regional Prosecutor, and Security officers, on Wednesday, have destroyed 650 bottles of illicit alcohol confiscated in Hargeisa. The court has convicted three suspects, who were caught smuggling banned wines into Hargeisa.

Marodijeh-East Police Commissioner, Ahmed Saed Mohamed, said police in Macalin Harun District, east of Hargeisa, have seized a vehicle carrying dozens of cartoons full of 450 bottles of Dry GIN.

Officials from Hargeisa’s Regional Court, Prosecutor Office and Police have poured the alcohol drinks into sand and destroyed the bottles in public place.

Although two suspects are not arrested yet, Hargeisa’s Regional Court has sentenced three individuals to three years in prison and fined three million Somaliland Shillings to each of those convicts. The court also fined the car transporting the illegal items, to 5 percent of its current price.

Due to recent changes in leadership, Somaliland Police have increased their fight against smugglers of illegal drugs such as alcohol, weeds and meth drugs and arrested numerous persons in the main towns of Somaliland.

The new Police command has asked Somaliland citizens to avoid the illicit business and urged them to report cases of individuals trading on drugs.

Somaliland is a 100 percent Muslim country with strict regulations on alcohol use. All kinds of alcohol are forbidden under the Somaliland laws and in correspondence with the Islamic Sharia.